Genius Hour Week 8

This week, I am finishing up my Genius Hour project.

My main learning of Genius Hour is: The journey and process is more important and valuable than the destination. Although I was unable to complete my blanket, I gained a lot of valuable experience and knowledge.

Relating back to the goals I set at the beginning of the project, which were 1) learn crochet stiches 2) learn how to read a crochet pattern 3) crochet a blanket, I believe I was successful in achieving them.
I learn how to create a crochet chain by doing "yarn over" and "chain stiches", along with learning how to "single crochet" and "double crochet". I learned how to read the pattern I found for my blanket along with the video tutorial of the pattern. Finally, I was able to learn how to crochet a blanket, even though it was not completed.

I really enjoyed my Genius Hour experience as I learned the basics of crocheting, which can be applied to other crochet projects in the future.

If I were to do Genius Hour again, I would modify my project to do something smaller!

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